RE: [smartBridges] APPO furstrations..

[Tom Haynes]

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REPLY INLINE -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] APPO furstrations.. well you may be correct on that answer I do notice that when I am at the client side pings suck but on the noc side pings to the radio are good which I assume is because I have more power going to then them coming in?? But their RSSI and link are always high! yet different between what the APPO reports and what the client radio reports which the client side always shows MORE.   TEH> The client side should almost always see the AP at a stronger signal than the AP can see the client. Does the AP indicate a RSSI/LQ lower than 60%? A lower RSSI on the AP indicates that the clients antenna may be ineffective. You may try increasing the gain of the clients antenna. Try pinging an idle computer while there is heavy traffic. If the results are good, then the AP is handeling the load fine and the client is having problems (antenna gain).   I tried pinging beyond the radio to the ip on the client pc if it is not being blocked by a firewall etc and pings are still crappy especially if they are surfing. What do you mean a TCP packet throughput test??? What's also funny is I changed one APPO SSID to a completely different one and did not change the clients to match yet 4 ABO's still connected to the APPO and were still passing traffic, this threw me off because at first I thought someone was leaching my line HEHEHE but it was my own people. Any reason WHY this would still allow customers to associate??    TEH> A TCP packet test is anything that you can transfer that uses TCP/IP like an HTTP or FTP download. TCP (http, ftp) is more important that ICMP (ping) or UDP (tftp, snmp) and the radios MAY (I don't know) discard them if they don't have the time. If the radios in question have an ESSID (name of AP to associate with) of ANY then they will associate with anything. If they are set to a specific name then it could be a bug.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Haynes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] APPO furstrations.. Are you pinging the radio or a device beyond the radio? If you are pinging the radio, the reply my be delayed due to high usage. What you really want to know is if the AP will allow your pings to pass through quickly. Also, Pings should be concidered a low priorty packet. Try a TCP packet throughput test. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] APPO furstrations.. Okay guys here is a question I know SB says they can have up to 128 clients associated to the APPO. I have aprox 22 on each one and they are totally crapping out by that mean I get 4-5 users on downloading at any given time and I swear to you pings just go to hell as high as 200-300 and lows about 30ms. I have tried EVERYTHING RTS CTS different channels WEP no WEP anything and everything and it has got me by the balls and I am tired of clients calling me complaining it is slow. It used to be awesome with 4-5 users total on it and even 10 users but after that its just gone down hill.   Any suggestion would GREATLY be appreciated.   two APPO's each connected to a 500mw Amp 50 ft of coax LMR 400 and then to a 13DB 90* pac wireless ant one facing north and one facing south both on chan 3 I know I know you will say interference from each other I tried separating and it made no difference it actually got worse I even had one appo in client bridge mode to check interference and I saw nothing form the APPO right next to it and very few other Access points out in the field. Most were at rssi 20 maybe 30% and link 20%.     PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me with any ideas I am all out I have worked on this all week I have a remote pop that is fed by the main two APPO's and the two customers on that radio can ping the remote appo all day long with less then 5 ms yet when you try and ping the main appos the pings are all over the place..   Oh yea most all signals at eh APPO's from the client show (not sure how accurate) 80 -100 RSSI some just under 80% and link about the same so I don't know if this could hamper it I have tried with a couple clients setting the APPO and ABO to autofallback speeds and that seemed to help for a couple people that were far out about 4-5 miles people up close seem to be fine..   13-19db ants on each install   HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP     Martin